Not only is Boston Celtics star guard Rajon Rondo on board with the hiring of the 36-year-old Brad Stevens as the team’s new coach, the All-Star guard plans to be ready to compete for him by opening night.
Still rehabbing from the torn ACL that prematurely ended his season last year, Bill Duffy, Rondo’s agent, told the Boston Herald the plan calls for Rondo to stage a “100 percent return” by opening night.
“That sounds right,” Duffy told The Herald. “We don’t won’t to put any pressure on him or over-anticipate, but he’s on target.”
And as for all those lingering questions as to if the notoriously stubborn Rondo and the NBA novice Stevens can co-exist, most in Celtics Nation are hopeful those concerns will too soon prove to be much ado about nothing.
Late last week a source close to Rondo told ProBasketballTalk.com, he is looking at the Stevens hiring with a “completely open mind.”
By his own admission, the 27-year-old, seven-year veteran is hard to coach and regularly clashed with recently departed longtime Coach Doc Rivers during their years together.
“It’s not that I’m hard to coach, it’s just that I may challenge what you say,” Rondo told ProBasketballTalk. “I know the game myself, I’m out there playing the game. So I may have saw something different versus what you saw from the sideline. I’m going to be respectable. I’m going to let the coach talk.”
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